Mingiardi hosted a luncheon for the USARAF commander and his group. After lunch, Donahue toured a paratrooper training area interacting with Italian soldiers and their instructors.
Folgore Parachute Brigade or Brigata Paracadutisti Folgore is the Italian Army’s largest airborne infantry unit with a lineage dating to the mid-1930s. The unit is composed of six battalion-sized regiments with its headquarters in Livorno, Italy. The brigade is made up of airborne infantry regiments and an assault regiment, a reconnaissance regiment, a combat engineer regiment, and a combat service support battalion. Additionally, the Military Parachute Center is based in Pisa.
The Folgore Brigade supported allied operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Additionally, the brigade performed a variety of international peacekeeping missions in Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, as well as with Multinational Force in Albania and East Timor. (Photos courtesy Brigata Paracadutisti Folgore)

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